Eikoh Hosoe
Simon in Riverside Field

Simon in Riverside Field
Simon in Riverside Field
Simon in Riverside Field
ArtistJapanese, 1933–2024
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Simon in Riverside Field
Date1971
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 × 11 9/16 in. (22.9 × 29.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.8 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of James Edward Maloney and Beverly Ann Young
Object number99.100
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


As a member of the short-lived yet influential avant-garde photography group Vivo, Eikoh Hosoe was a key figure among the generation of Japanese photographers representing and confronting societal transformation following World War II. Hosoe frequently collaborated with other artists and cultural figures, and this picture portrays the artist and actor Simon Yotsuya, of whom Hosoe made a number of pictures. Hosoe’s photographs of Yotsuya are darkly cinematic, representing the actor’s psychological depth to create enigmatic narratives where inner and outer worlds collide.



ProvenanceJames Edward Maloney and Beverly Ann Young, Houston; given to MFAH, 1999.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Initialed in pencil, recto, bottom right under image: EH 71
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom edge: “Simon in Riverside Field” Eikoh Hosoe [signed] // 1971
Initialed in pencil, recto, bottom right under image: EH 71
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom right edge: Eikoh Hosoe

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